View source for Atriplex powellii var. minuticarpa

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Atriplex powellii var. minuticarpa
|accepted_authority=(Stutz & G. L. Chu) S. L. Welsh
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhodora
|place=102: 421. 2001
|year=2001
}}
|common_names=Smallbract orach
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Atriplex minuticarpa
|authority=Stutz & G. L. Chu
|publication_title=Madroño
|publication_place=40: 161, fig. 1. 1993
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Chenopodiaceae;Atriplex;Atriplex subg. Obione;Atriplex sect. Obione;Atriplex subsect. Argenteae;Atriplex powellii;Atriplex powellii var. minuticarpa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Chenopodiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Atriplex]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Atriplex subg. Obione]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Atriplex sect. Obione]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subsection</small>[[Atriplex subsect. Argenteae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Atriplex powellii]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>variety</small>[[Atriplex powellii var. minuticarpa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 352
|treatment_page=page 353
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> monoecious, (0.5–)1–4.5 dm. <b>Leaves</b> on petioles 0.3–1.5(–2) cm proximally, becoming sessile distally, blade inconspicuously 3-veined, deltoid-ovate to orbicular-ovate or cordate-ovate, 5–20(–30) mm and as wide, base broadly cuneate to subcordate, apex acute to shortly acuminate, scurfy. <b>Flowers</b> of both sexes intermixed in axillary glomerules. <b>Staminate</b> flowers 5-merous. <b>Fruiting</b> bracteoles ovate-oblong or oval to obovate, 1.5–2.5 × 1–2.5 mm, subentire to tridentate apically, median tooth largest, lateral lobes often rounded and sometimes constricted basally, giving an overall violin shape, sometimes slenderly appendaged marginally and bicristate on at least 1 face, but typically unappendaged on faces. <b>Seeds</b> yellow-brown, 0.9–1.2 mm.</span><!--

-->{{Treatment/Body
|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Tununk and Blue Gate members Mancos Shale Formation and on Morrison Formation, and likely on other fine-textured saline substrates, with mat-atriplex, greasewood, rabbitbrush, and shadscale communities
|elevation=1200-1400 m
|distribution=Utah.
|discussion=<p>This entity is completely within the distribution of <i></i></i>var.<i><i> powellii</i> in southeast Utah, where it occurs on the fine-textured saline and seleniferous silts and clays of exposed Jurassic and Cretaceous strata. The habits of growth of the two taxa are essentially identical, and the shape of both the foliage and bracteate leaves is essentially the same. The fruiting bracteoles of <i></i></i>var.<i><i> minuticarpa</i>, though small, occasionally bear finger-like surficial appendages and share the rounded lateral lobes marginal to the terminal cusp and violin shape with <i></i></i>var.<i><i> powellii</i>. This small-bracteolate plant evidently occupies a much more limited set of ecological circumstances than its near ally.</p>
|tables=
|references=
}}<!--

--><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Atriplex powellii var. minuticarpa
|author=
|authority=(Stutz & G. L. Chu) S. L. Welsh
|rank=variety
|parent rank=species
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Atriplex minuticarpa
|family=Chenopodiaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Tununk and Blue Gate members Mancos Shale Formation and on Morrison Formation, and likely on other fine-textured saline substrates, with mat-atriplex, greasewood, rabbitbrush, and shadscale communities
|elevation=1200-1400 m
|distribution=Utah.
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhodora
|publication year=2001
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V4/V4_679.xml
|genus=Atriplex
|subgenus=Atriplex subg. Obione
|section=Atriplex sect. Obione
|subsection=Atriplex subsect. Argenteae
|species=Atriplex powellii
|variety=Atriplex powellii var. minuticarpa
}}<!--

-->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Atriplex powellii]]